Inspired by the 150th publication anniversary of Darwin’s evolutionary treatise, On the Origin of the Species, the Super Human: Revolution of the Species suite of events turns the spotlight on contemporary art and science collaborative research and practice and its interpretations of - and impacts upon - the human body.
22 – 26 November 2009
Melbourne, Australia
www.superhuman.org.au

Taking place over two days, the Super Human symposium presented an invigorating and inspiring mix of keynote speakers and collaborative research projects engaging with one or more of the symposium themes: Augmentation, Cognition and Nanoscale Interventions.

Questions that the Symposium addressed included, but are not limited to, the following:
How do scientific and artistic bodies of knowledge intersect with human, social bodies? Does art serve simply as a representational tool for the sciences or is there more to the picture than that? Does research into bodies and their systems offer an insight into aesthetics, or is it confined to the purely functional?

Symposium proceedings will be published in Second Nature in March 2010. Second Nature and the Symposium is supported by RMIT University’s School of Creative Media.